Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 07:55:40 -0400 (EDT) From: "Vladimir N.Silyaev" <vns@mindspring.com> To: ak@freenet.co.uk Cc: John Reynolds <jjreynold@home.com>, freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Some VMware progress. More questions (was Re: latest VMware port dumping core. ) Message-ID: <200007251155.HAA00409@jupiter.delta.ny.us> In-Reply-To: <397D5A03.74EC2582@freenet.co.uk> References: <14716.26696.719757.828831@hip186.ch.intel.com> <200007250002.UAA00521@jupiter.delta.ny.us> <14717.14343.423191.404139@whale.home-net> <397D5A03.74EC2582@freenet.co.uk>
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A G F Keahan wrote: >> General observations / questions: >> >> o It is PAINFULLY slow. If I ever get the VMware tools installed will that >> help? I've got TWO Pentium III 500Mhz CPUs and 256Mb of RAM in this machine >> and the vmware window running win98 seems like when I used to run Windows NT >> on a 486DX4 with slow ISA video card. With this much CPU, is the slowness I >> see with VMware typical? Do other users see this much slowness? What can be >> done to speed things up? > >First of all, run it in full-screen (DGA) mode, if your adapter supports >it. For that he have to install VMware tools at first. And as I wrote before, several weeks ago, it's just a good sense to bootup in to the Safe Mode and create _another_ hardware profile for Win98 under VMware. >This would speed things up immensely. Here I'm running WinNT on >a Pentium III 600 with 256Mb of RAM, and no-one can tell the difference >between VMWare and the real thing. Once our local NT sysadmin had to >use my computer, and after 30 minutes he still didn't notice anything >unusual -- LOL! In fact, access to the disk and CD-ROM seems to be >much faster under FreeBSD-powered NT (TM), because FreeBSD knows how to >enable UDMA66 on my drive and NT doesn't (at least not by default). And also I suppose that WinNT works bit faster under VMware than Win98, due to the nature of Win98. >> o In vain, I tried to access my CD-ROM which is a scsi device sitting on ahc0 >> target 3. If I tried to "install" this device inside the configuration >> editor I instantly get a core-dump the next time I try to "power on" the VM >> with the following message to the console: >> >> /: write failed, file system is full >> VMware Workstation PANIC: Slave process "SCSI0:3" died Even when you are using SCSI CDROM, you should tried to install in under vmware as IDE one. -- Vladimir To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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